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Music Monday – “Oh please/Say to me/You’ll let me be your man”

Yesterday was the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles’ first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show where they performed to a record-setting audience of 70 million people. Here’s a clip from one of their performances that night… “I Want To Hold Your Hand” – The Beatles

Posted 10 February 2014 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Travel The World Without Leaving Your Laptop

The day before we left for Hawaii a couple years ago, I did a post summarizing how much of a role various web sites – from Google to Reddit to Trip Advisor – played in helping to plan and just generally build excitement for our trip. I mentioned Google Maps in passing in that post […]

Posted 26 January 2014 § Canada § Internet § MemoryLane § Randomness § Technology § Travel § United States § Video ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

The Correlation Between Unionization and Poverty Rates Around the World

(h/t to MF on FB)

Posted 23 January 2014 § Canada § Infographic § Jobs § Politics § United States § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 23 – Music Monday – “I really like Christmas/It’s sentimental I know/But I just really like it/I’m hardly religious/I’d rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest”

There was a method to my madness in posting a Tim Minchin song as my Music Monday selection for each of the past few weeks during my “Atheist Advent” series. It was all to lead up to Minchin’s ultimate achievement and one of the best non-traditional Christmas songs I’ve ever heard – funny, insightful, wistful, […]

Posted 23 December 2013 § Censorship § Family § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 16 – Music Monday – “Which suggests that God’s omniscience/Is nullified by His ambivalence/Unless it turns out that He’s impotent/And if God can’t get a boner/I guess that explains the plethora/Of huge erections in His honour”

Nothing controversial here… 😉 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfmjMlPEic “Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins” – Tim Minchin

Posted 16 December 2013 § Censorship § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 15 – Christopher Hitchens RIP

Amazing man. Watch this…

Posted 15 December 2013 § Politics § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 9 – Music Monday – “You only need to pray in a particular spot/To a particular version of a particular god/And if you pull that off without a hitch/He will fix one eye of one middle-class white bitch”

This story of Sam’s has but a single explanation: a surgical God who digs on magic explanations. It couldn’t be mistaken attribution of causation, born of a coincidental temporal correlation, exacerbated by a general lack of education vis-a-vis physics in Sam’s parish congregation. And it couldn’t be that all these pious people are liars. It […]

Posted 09 December 2013 § Humour § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 8 – John Lennon, The World’s Most Famous Atheist?

John Lennon was murdered 33 years ago today.  He is perhaps the most famous atheist to have ever lived. While still a member of the Beatles, he caused an enormous controversy by stating a view shared by all of the group’s members: Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; […]

Posted 08 December 2013 § PopCulture § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 3 – “Take The Risk of Thinking For Yourself…”

Christopher Hitchens is one of the patron saints of atheists.  (Er, there’s probably a better way to describe him!) 😉

Posted 03 December 2013 § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Atheist Advent Calendar – Day 2 – Music Monday – “I know the Good Book’s good/Because the Good Book says it’s good/I know the Good Book knows it’s good/Because a really good book would”

I suspect Tim Minchin will be making up the content of all my Music Monday posts for Atheist Advent! 😉 “The Good Book” – Tim Minchin

Posted 02 December 2013 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,